Munich shooting News

German police said they had arrested a 16-year-old Afghan friend of the gunman who killed nine people in a rampage at a shopping centre in Munich.

Three Kosovans were among the nine people killed in a shooting rampage by a German-Iranian gunman at a busy Munich shopping centre, the foreign ministry said Saturday.

Western Europe was jolted by terror for the third time in eight days when an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman, who apparently acted alone, opened fire on Friday in a busy shopping mall in Munich.

An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack against civilians in Western Europe in eight days.

Munich newspaper TZ said one of the gunmen that went on a rampage in a shopping mall in the city on Friday may be dead.

Supporters of the Islamic State militant group celebrated on social media a shooting rampage in a shopping mall in the southern German city of Munich on Friday that killed and wounded many people. 

The mall near the southern German city's Olympic stadium was surrounded by police after shots were fired.